OT: Desktop icons vanishing. How to get rid of them?

Happens regularly on a Win2K machine: Coming out of hibernate of even standby about 80% of the desktop icons are replaced by the generic Windows logo. When I go into properties for each it's still there but I guess Windoze messes that up. Why doesn't that surprise me? When I reboot they come back but that takes too much time during the day. Icons are IMHO just decoration anyhow and superfluous. Can one get completely rid of them?

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Regards, Joerg

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